More Pretty El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron Screens To Gawk At

That’s Enoch above, the robot battling hero of El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Robots… in a game with archangels? Yes, says the ESRB in their description.

This is an action-adventure game in which players control Enoch, a man who must prevent fallen angels from destroying humankind. Players punch, kick, and use a magical sword to defeat a variety of fantastical creatures (e.g., robots, armored animals) and human-like enemies. Some sequences allow players to engage in melee-style attacks: battles are highlighted by grunts, cries of pain, and clanging sound effects—defeated enemies disappear in brief puffs of smoke or bursts of light. In one sequence, two boar-like creatures are depicted in masks that emit red streaming liquid from their eyes. The dialogue sometimes contains suggestive material (e.g., "[Y]ou defiled your bodies and bore the Nephilim through the blood of the flesh" and "I granted wives to satisfy their lust and that they might bear children.").

I wonder if they meant Ezek V one of the enemies Ezekiel, a fallen angel driven by motherly love, created.

Wow it seems they addressed my only concern about the backgrounds and empty landscapes. Quite a few of the images look interesting. I think I will keep this game on my “will buy if it is hyped and garnishes a >80% review score on major review score aggregate sites.”

If Im spending $1500-$2000 on this form of entertainment each year, then I need some measure to ensure that games beyond what I think are must buys, have some measure of quality.

Reviews would have enabled me to avoid being disappointed with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (which because of silly means they didnt let reviews come out until midnight, after I had already received and opened the product). I do not want to be disappointed with a game ever again.

OVERUSED

No one is forcing you to spend $1500-$2000 dollars on a bunch of toys.

You know what you should rely on? Find people who share similar tastes as you and then listen to them. Don’t listen to “professional” reviewers, half of which are giving good reviews because of advertising revenue. If I listened to reviewers, I would’ve never played God Hand or Nier.

I wouldn’t be that pessimistic.Yes, some reviews are skewed but player reviews (which only seem to exist on the levels of “It’s the second coming of Jesus”,”Meh”, or “Halo is better”) aren’t much to go on either.I always look at multiple professional reviews to get a much broader scope of my potential purchases and that hasn’t failed yet.PS God Hand and Nier deserved what they got,they both were inventive but marred by issues that held them back.

It takes great work for me to go through on Gamespot for reviews that are more detailed than that or have every game imaginable at a 10/10 on their reviews. Fortunately Amazon reviewers are a bit more realistic. But difficult to rely on for quick reviews immediately after release of a game :(

That is the result of me just thinking for myself. My Wii library is just so focused, and even I know that Im possibly missing some stellar games. Its just without any suggestions I only stay on my comfort zone and dont try nothing else :(

Wow,you have the gaming taste of a twelve year old.Do yourself a favor and pick up No More Heroes 2 already.

Yusaku_Matsuda70s

I wish more devs took advantage of current HD hardware capabilities to push art on a grand scale like this. There’s so much contrast going on here but somehow it all works… Klimt-like texture but Bauhaus-like austerity, minimal but meticulous, medieval yet modern… simply brilliant.

That funny looking white thing with a human riding on it looks like Cactuar.

Kris

Stunning. It almost makes me forget Ignition’s spotty past. I can’t wait to try it out.

Looks very pretty and sounds pretencious in a good way. But I guess I’m the minority that’s not excited about the game due to a combination of this being an experimental game and lack of gameplay videos.

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